Pride or Humility

Pride or Humility

"Pride is a deep rooted and a self-preserving sin; and therefore is harder to be killed and rooted up than other sins.  It hinders the discovery of itself.  ...  It will not allow the dinner to see his pride when he is reproved; neither will it allow him to confess it if he see it; nor ... to loathe himself and forsake it.  ...  Even when he recognizes all of the evidences of pride in others, he will not see it in himself. ..."

 

"Humility is willingness and desire that others should not think of us, or speak of us, or use (i.e., treat) us as greater or wiser or better than we are: that they should give us no more honor, praise or love than is our due."

 

(Richard Baxter)